April 23, 2014: Clinton says that China and Russia “were going after the personal emails of people who worked in the State Department.”

Clinton checks her BlackBerry after attending a Russia-US meeting on the sidelines of an annual Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, on July 23, 2010. (Credit: Na Son Nguyen / Agence France Presse)

Clinton criticizes the recent news that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden fled to first China and then to Russia. “When I would go to China or I would go to Russia, we would leave all my electronic equipment on the plane with the batteries out, because this is a new frontier and they’re trying to find out not just about what we do in our government, they’re trying to find out about what a lot of companies do and they were going after the personal emails of people who worked in the State Department.” She adds that China and Russia are “two countries with which we have very difficult cyber-relationships, to put it mildly.” (Mother Jones, 4/25/2014)